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Stuff | 25 Random Things

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

One of the most popular notes (some say chain mail) to hit Facebook as of late is the note called 25 Random things about myself. Having succumbed to following this trend myself it has been a real eye opener to find out some funny, some sad and mostly awe inspiring factoids about other people in [...]

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Culture | Golliwogs and Job Security

Posted in Opinion, tagged , , , on February 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Well the BBC are having a real field day with contentious issues aren’t they? The latest ’scandal’ to break forth from White City is the sacking from The One Show of Carol Thatcher. The daughter of the former British PM Margaret Thatcher apparently commented in a green room of colleagues that the tennis player Jo [...]

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Work | When Your Brand Goes South

Posted in Work Stuff, tagged , , , , , on February 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Brand Management
What happens when the brand you have invested time, money and emotional hours into has been damaged? We have recently seen major companies like Monster (data theft), the banks (bad money management) and a host of other high street store names fall down hill and in so doing wipe the goodwill and whatever other [...]

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Youth | Dalton Sherman

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

this is why I do what I do.

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Enterprise | Make Your Mark With a Tenner

Posted in Work Stuff, tagged , , , on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

20, ooo young people aged 19 and under from schools, colleges and youth groups around the country are taking part in Make Your Mark with a Tenner, one of the most innovative projects to get young people involved in being entrepreneurial
The scheme founded by Oli Barrett, promoted by Make Your Mark and NESTA, and funded [...]

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Youth Enterprise | Let’s Trade

Posted in Work Stuff, tagged , , , , on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

From Wednesday to Friday last week I worked with a group of performing arts students in South Thames College. The workshops focused on getting them to work on an a business idea and seeing it through to reality. I will refrain from sharing those ideas as some of them are still works in progress.
The programme [...]

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Youth | Speaking Out in Ealing

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

On Tuesday evening I was the MC for The Jack Petchey Speak out Challenge final for Ealing. This night was the culmination of a full term of public speaking training delivered to 563 year ten students in all state schools in Ealing. What an awesome evening it was.
It is amazing to see the confidence that [...]

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Enterprise | Doing SMARTA Business

Posted in Work Stuff, tagged , , , on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 
Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of being at the launch of SMARTA.com. This was quite a special moment to see my friend Shaa (pictured right) birth a business idea from scratch and finally see it come to fruition. Held at the popular One Alfred Place this event focused on the vision behind SMARTA which [...]

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